Image OCR (Text Extractor)
Extract editable text from images, screenshots, and photos locally using WebAssembly OCR.
Image OCR (Text Extractor)
Extract editable text from images, photos, and screenshots locally using WebAssembly OCR.
Click or drag image file here
Supports PNG, JPEG, WebP, BMP, GIF
About Image OCR (Text Extractor)
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Text Extractor parses and extracts editable text from images, document scans, screenshots, receipts, and book photos with 100+ language support and 100% in-browser client-side Tesseract.js processing.
How to Use Image OCR (Text Extractor)
Step 1
Upload, drag & drop, or paste (Ctrl+V) an image into the workspace.
Step 2
Select the primary language of the text.
Step 3
Click "Extract Text" and watch the progress bar.
Step 4
Copy or download the recognized text.
Practical Use Cases for Image OCR (Text Extractor)
Screenshot & Unselectable Text Extraction
Copy code snippets, error messages, and URLs locked inside video tutorials, slides, and non-selectable UI dialogs.
Document & Receipt Digitization
Convert scanned PDF pages, invoices, and paper book pages into searchable, editable plain text and markdown.
Input & Output Examples
Extracting Text from Screenshot
Uploaded Image: invoice_scan.png
Parsed Text: "INVOICE #9821\nDate: 2026-09-01\nTotal: $1,450.00\nPayment Terms: Net 30"
Key Features & Performance
- ✓In-browser Tesseract.js neural network OCR engine (zero cloud server transmission).
- ✓Supports 100+ international languages and scripts.
- ✓Automatic image preprocessing: contrast enhancement and binarization for clean text recognition.
- ✓Real-time confidence scoring metrics per recognized paragraph.
- ✓1-Click Copy and 1-Click `.txt` export.
Key Terminology & Definitions
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
The electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into machine-encoded text.
Binarization Thresholding
Converting color or grayscale pixels into pure black and white (1-bit) to separate text characters from background noise.